Emma Heaney is visiting assistant professor in the Draper Interdisciplinary Master's Program in Humanities and Social Thought at New York University. Her book, The New Woman: Literary Modernism, Queer Theory, and the Trans Feminine Allegory, is forthcoming.

Abstract

This essay argues that retrieval of the archive of trans women's engagement with women's liberation corrects a historical focus on the virulent trans misogyny that targeted trans women for exclusion from feminist milieus and projects beginning in 1973. This essay follows the arguments for trans exclusion into their contemporary iterations and proposes the archive of trans women's feminist work as a theoretical and political resource for countering trans misogyny.